What Nick Sirianni wants to avoid following Eagles' collapse

It sounds like Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni believes a certain amount of change can be a negative for his team even after it suffered a brutal collapse in the second half of last season.

"I think what’s very important is that we don’t overcorrect," Sirianni recently explained, as shared by Jimmy Kempski of Philly Voice. "There’s a danger of overcorrecting in my eyes. You have to adapt. You have to evolve. I don’t knock on wood because I don’t believe in all that s—, but knock on wood we’re 3-0 to start the season in our first game (in his Eagles tenure), right? I put a lot of work into figuring out what it takes to win the first game. Last year we started off 5-0. The year before we started off 8-0. Like, I don’t know how much to correct. The problem of where we stalled out last year has nothing to do with how training camp was, if that makes sense."

Sirianni guided the 2022 Eagles to a 14-3 regular-season record and to Super Bowl LVII, where Philadelphia endured a 38-35 defeat against the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Eagles seemed on track to return to the Super Bowl when they began December 2023 at 10-1, but they then fell to 11-6 before they suffered a 32-9 wild-card playoff loss at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Sirianni reportedly is on the hot seat heading into the upcoming campaign, and he's admitted that "it’s going to be hard for me to continue to work here" if the club doesn't "win enough" from September through February.

He nevertheless won't make summer practices overly grueling for players who failed to produce positive results when it mattered the most last season.

"Now, I do think our practices – we’re probably on the low-end extreme of time out [on the field]," Sirianni added. "There are teams on the high-end extreme. And I think that we need to come up to here (he placed hand at a medium-low level), but I think we’re closer to where we want to be than the high extreme teams."

It was reported in the spring that former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is "biding his time until next January for openings on teams he has told confidants he would be interested in coaching."

One of those clubs is the Eagles, and team owner Jeffrey Lurie allegedly "expressed interest in Belichick" this past winter.